Hines v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Applicant Hines was found guilty by a jury in 1957 of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Penitentiary. Hines did not appeal from his conviction; but in 1959 he filed a petition under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act, which petition was denied by Judge Mason. Upon application for leave to appeal to this Court, we remanded the case for a factual determination whether the petitioner was entitled to a belated appeal, Hines v. Warden, 221 Md. 616 (1960), but we expressly declined to rule at that time upon any of the other issues presented. A belated…